Dr. Heather Metcalf

Dr. Heather Metcalf is the Director of Research for the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). She serves as PI or co-PI on a variety of collaborative federally funded grant projects that focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice in STEM education and STEM workplaces including the ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network, Amplifying the Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM Success (ACCESS+), the ADVANCE, INCLUDES, and I-Corps Collective, and the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective. She is also PI for the WEPAN Accelerator, an entrepreneurship accelerator program for women in engineering funded by the Small Business Administration. Prior to joining WEPAN, Dr. Metcalf did her postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona as part of their NSF ADVANCE award and was Chief Research Officer at the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). Dr. Metcalf has undergraduate degrees in applied mathematics and computer science from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and gender studies from the University of Arizona, and a doctorate in higher education, science, and technology policy from the University of Arizona. She has published her work in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and appeared on a range of media channels, including Public Radio International, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Public Radio, Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Scientific American, Nature, and Forbes, among others.